Awards are like applause, and every actor likes to hear applause.

I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.

Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.

We're in a world of truncated sentences, soundbites and Twitter... [Language] is being eroded -- it's changing. Our expressiveness and our ease with some words is being diluted so that the sentence with more than one clause is a problem for us, and the word of more than two syllables is a problem for us.

Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.

Ridicule is also a weapon against forces of evil. Really clever, intelligent ridicule.

I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.